Thursday, 26 September 2013

Why should you care about audience?

if you care about your audience by sending out questionnaires and finding out what they are interested in you can create your chosen product in a way which will suit your audience

why should you care about research?

How do you make an effective and helpful questionnaire?

  • To make the answers given more detail have them choose only a certain amount of answers
  • Be precise and specific with your questions
  • Use a semantic-differential scale
  • Ask about what you want to know
  • Limit the amount of responses given to you
  • Can handle their choices more easily
What type of questions to ask?

  • Look into magazines to get an idea
  • Genre
  • Sub - Genre
  •  Artist
  •  Music
  • Instrument 
  • Way of obtaining music
  • Internet access
  • Mobile device data
  • What they do in their spare time
  • Social networking
  • Have you ever read these magazines?
  • Have you ever purchased said magazines
  • How you find out about new music
  • Favourite front cover of a magazine
  • Use of Language
  • Representation of Males and Females

Monday, 9 September 2013

Magazine Ideas

Finance
  • Equipment
  • Transport
  • Talent
  • Crew
  • Materials
  • Facility Hire
  • Printing/Ink
  • Salary
  • Readers
  • For magazine rates including dates etc visit this link price to advertisements responsibly http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/uploads/QMediaPack-Feb2013.pdf
Time
  • Deadlines

Personnel
  • Staff
  • Journalist
  • Photographers
  • Editors
  • Writers
  • Publishers

Facilities
  • Equipment (Cameras, Lights, Audio and Video Devices, Printers)
  • Post production

Materials
  • Photos
  • Text
  • Costumes
  • Interview
  • Ink Cartridges
  • Size of Paper + Quality
  • Unique Materials


Contribution
  • Artists
  • Celebrities
  • Bands
  • Experts

Locations
  • Band Locations
  • Celebrity Location
  • Photography Studio

Codes of Practice Regulations
  • Press Complaints
  • Copyright
  • Permission for Locations
  • Health and Safety
  • Public Liability
  • National Union of Journalists

Planning

  • Title
  • Columns
  • Colour Scheme
  • Genre